Xbox Dashboard conceptart (2000)

I did some digging and while Microsoft is thanking Victor Blanco, Brad Christian and Jim Helm for making it posible: State of the Xbox vol.4 by Jeff Henshaw, Executive Producer, XDK back in 2001. : https://web.archive.org/web/20010608161515/http://www.xbox.com/news/0106/0401.htm

I found a Seton Kim who did some concept art for the Xbox (1, classic) and startup sequence.
Sources: http://setonkim.com/Assets/2000/xbox_startup_main.html and http://setonkim.com/Assets/2000/xbox_dash_main.html





and also some movies (.mov) if they are unavailable, I got backups and the Archive.org has it backupped aswell.
Dashboard
http://setonkim.com/Assets/2000/xbox_dash_mov01.mov
another dashboard video
http://setonkim.com/Assets/2000/xbox_dash_mov02.mov

They look very similar to the dashboard on the Alpha kits as concept designs and animations look like just animations and not running on real hardware.
But still very cool to see, and maybe you happen to know more or just like to see these kind of things.

His resume and timeline (which is view-able in the archive) shows that he made this arround 2000, it all sounds correct. maybe someine can verfify his work? is he noted in the "Easter egg" credits?

 

Nice find, I never knew the original Xbox was intended to have multiple games and video running off the HDD.

It kind of happened eventually with MCE and the handful of XBLA games that came out, but still.

 

It was a concept for a reason, so intended is a bit of a strong word. Microsoft never lied about the fact that they wanted the Xbox to be the center of the entertainment system, look at the 360 and one. Especially at this time period (2000), things were still really up in the air, so I would imagine they would have wanted to cover all bases.

 

I get what you mean, my remark wasn't meant to be negative. If anything, I admire that they had a vision of what the Xbox 360 eventually became known for that far back in the development cycle. The intent was there, but the resources to follow through with that intent were either too expensive or un-developed. I still want to try out the original Xbox MCE, that came out near the end of the Xbox's life cycle (2004?), but even then it was still too ahead of it's time and lost out in a world that was still dominated by DVDs and Blockbuster.

 

I know hah, I just wanted to clear it up, some people reading this now or in the future may see it and be like "Wow, the Xbox was totally going to have that feature," even if it never got off the drawing board. I mean, for the first part of its life, the Xbox was envisioned as running both Xbox and PC games, although the latter became unfeasible quite quickly. It's all semantics really, but having that divide of what was really a feature that was surely going to happen is important

 

The animation you have in the first sequence of pictures looks a lot like the Xbox's "please put this disc in an Xbox console" logo.

 

You mean the DVD Movie sequence.


Glad the startup sequence was changed.... Horrible.

Also it seems that the XBOX font (xboxbook.xtf) wasn't implemented in the concepts, but can't tell if it's used for the menu headings.

Menu doesn't appear to be changed much in terms of inner menus, but great find Code

 

Wow, that's a pretty fascinating find! I'd love to see a custom Dash modeled after one of these, I'd use it!

 

And wow, forgot I want 3332.1 Badly (its pre retail dashboard, properbly not going to work on a normal Xbox directly)

 

Maybe not but there is nothing stopping anyone from fixing it up :3
(I assume this particulate one is not public?)

 

I think its 3332.1(in the video)Edit: yea, you can see the version number XD.


and 3146(.2 or .3) is leaked, dint tried it on my (Franken)AlphaII yet. could be this one alike.

 

thanks dear

How to install it please?

 

Insert recovery, its bootable, press random button at screen when asked, data lost on hdd and dash is installed. (burn the iso, or extract and copy)

 

The sub menu concept reminds me of the Dreamcast interface.




Fitting, considering Sega heavily supported the console and tried to push Microsoft into allowing the Xbox to be backwards compatible with the Dreamcast.
I have always thought of the Original xbox as the dreamcast 2. It had dreamcast sequels, a similar controller, and a similar concept for its online service.
Xbox is what dreamcast 2 could of been.

 

Thanks Code ASm

by FTp is it ^possible, what's folders in C plesase?

 

very cool...

 

the recovery and all versions befor 39xx where alpha kits, properbly not gonna work on your retail xbox. So you need to hack or mod it and you will be the first. Ive build a alpha pc just to run this. So, this recovery, version is not(directly) gonna work.

 

You think dont run on softmod xbox or debug?

 

Its for pre retail hardware, the executables are not signed or diferently, the kernal has another hal and is expecting certain hardware replaced in retail boxes. I suggest extracting the dashboard files and ui design elements and building or rebuilding it. Basicly its win 7 and windows 8.. Different and still windows

 

how did you build an alpha pc? any chance theres a tutorial somewhere